I used to do a 2 to 3 day observation, seperate tank, just hit them with Prazipro to deworm and was fine. For almost 2 years. Then I got some Lammark's angels and didn't acclimate them separately as I wanted to get them eating in my reef, and they brought velvet. After having to tear down a 200 gallon tank 48x48 in order to catch the remaining fish to treat. I'm going to do the all out full multi-month quarantine. I lost close to 1500 in fish, some of which I had become quite attached too.

you may be fine with the gamble, and well ick doesn't kill healthy fish, when Velvet strikes you will understand why people go to such great lengths to quarantine.

On the plus side, this curbs any impulse buying as well, as I currently only have one 75 gallon tank dedicated to quarantine.

I havn't been in the hobby long, but my research tells me that quarantine is a "best practice". All my fish have been through quarantine 4-6 weeks. I have 2 in there right now.

I'm happy to see more than 1/3 of reefers are quarantining. :)

Very surprised with that number tho :)

Me too. Although the CanReef community does not reflect the marine aquarium hobbyist world as a whole (or even Canada-wide). I've always found the average CanReefer is not the average person to walk through the door of a LFS.

I was on RC last night and there is a multitude of threads there about whether to QT or not and one of the longer threads about 80+ pages somebody figured out around 40% QT while the rest did direct dumping or a variation of QT

Not that I want to dwell on the subject but I found the following quote somewhat appropriate:

"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo

Ya know, the worst part of QT is the waiting :) Anxious to get the new fish added to the DT

+1
I have a molly miller in the TT method right now from Oceanic in Aldergrove.
He's doing well, but its hard to wait. Worth it in the end though